The album became McBride's fastest-selling of her career and gave her her best debut sales week with 185,000 copies sold in its first week; in the U.S. the album was certified Gold and Platinum on 12/12/2005 by the R.I.A.A.

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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves

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Martina McBride
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Martina Mariea McBride is an American country music singer-songwriter and record producer. She is known for her soprano singing range and her country pop material, McBride was signed to RCA Records in 1991, and made her debut the following year as a neo-traditionalist country singer with the single, The Time Has Come. Five of these went to No.1 on the country chart between 1995 and 2001, and one peaked at No.1 on the adult contemporary chart in 2003. She has been called the Celine Dion of Country Music when she was recognized for her soprano singing range, McBride has recorded a total of 13 studio albums, two greatest hits compilations, one live album, as well as two additional compilation albums. Eight of her albums and two of her compilations have received an RIAA Gold certification, or higher. In the U. S. she has sold over 14 million albums, in addition, McBride has won the Country Music Associations Female Vocalist of the Year award four times and the Academy of Country Musics Top Female Vocalist award three times. She is also a 14-time Grammy Award nominee, Martina Mariea Schiff was born in Sharon, Kansas on July 29,1966. She has two brothers, Martin and Steve, who play in her concert band, and a sister. Martinas parents, Daryl and Jeanne Schiff, owned a dairy farm, Daryl, who was also a cabinetry shop owner, exposed Martina to country music at a young age. Listening to country music helped her acquire a love for singing, after school, she would spend hours singing along to the records of such popular artists as Reba McEntire, Linda Ronstadt, Juice Newton, Jeanne Pruett, Connie Smith, and Patsy Cline. Around the age of eight or nine, Martina began singing with a band her father fronted, as Schiff grew older her role in the band progressively increased, from simply singing, to also playing keyboard with them. She enjoyed performing in her early years, Martina began performing with a local rock band, The Penetrators, in Wichita instead. Then, in 1987, Schiff gathered a group of musicians called Lotus and started looking for rehearsal space, after marrying, the couple moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1989 with the hope of beginning a career in country music. John McBride joined Garth Brookss sound crew and later became his concert production manager, Martina occasionally joined her husband on the road and helped sell Garth Brooks souvenirs. In 1990, impressed by Martinas enthusiastic spirit, Brooks offered her the position of his opening act provided she could obtain a recording contract, McBride released her debut studio album by RCA Records in 1992, titled The Time Has Come. It was produced by Paul Worley and Ed Seay and this albums title track made number 23 on the country music charts, but the next two singles both failed to make top 40. Unlike her later country pop-influenced albums, The Time Has Come featured honky tonk, the Way That I Am was McBrides second album. Its first two singles both brought her into the top ten, My Baby Loves Me peaked at number two, and Life No.9 at number six

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Country music
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Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres

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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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Martina (album)
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Martina is American country music artist Martina McBrides seventh album, released on September 30,2003 by RCA Nashville. It was a one on the country album charts. In the U. S. the album was certified Gold on 11/7/2003, Platinum on 1/12/2004 and it produced four singles on the country charts, This Ones for the Girls at #3, In My Daughters Eyes at #4, How Far at #12 and Gods Will at #16. Pop girl group Girl Authority covered This Ones for the Girls for their second album Road Trip, the album features a live concert version of the classic song Over the Rainbow. Track 2, Shes a Butterfly, features Big & Rich on background vocals, ricky Skaggs plays mandolin and sings background vocals alongside his wife, Sharon White, on Reluctant Daughter, which Skaggs also arranged. The track, Wearing White, features Vince Gill on backup vocals, a limited edition was also released exclusively through Wal-Mart retail stores. This version featured a track, Show Me. The track can now also be found on Playlist, The Very Best of Martina McBride, all strings performed by the Nashville String Machine, conducted and arranged by Chris McDonald

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Waking Up Laughing
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Waking Up Laughing is the ninth studio album from country singer Martina McBride. This album is the first in McBrides career in which she has both co-written songs and been involved in the production single-handedly. This album produced three singles for McBride on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, Anyway at #5, How I Feel at #15. In the U. S. the album was certified Gold on 12/12/2007 by the R. I. A. A, waking Up Laughing is the first album of McBrides career in which she co-wrote any of the material. McBride wrote the lead-off single Anyway with Brad and Brett Warren of The Warren Brothers and this song reached #5 on the Hot Country Songs charts in early 2007, becoming McBrides first Top Ten country hit in three years. The Warren Brothers and McBride also co-wrote How I Feel, the single, with Chris Lindsey. For These Times was inspired by former Republican senator Rick Santorum, who was defeated in 2006, when his daughter began to cry at his loss, the cameras focused on her, inspiring Leslie Satcher to write the song. It was also inspired by her Pastor, who stated For these times in which we live, the song received a 2009 Grammy nomination. Cry Cry was covered by former Trick Pony lead vocalist Heidi Newfield on her solo album, What Am I Waiting For. Robert Bailey- background vocals David Campbell- string arrangements, conductor Matt Chamberlain- drums J. T

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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s

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Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson song)
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Rose Garden is a song written by Joe South, best known as recorded by country music singer Lynn Anderson, and first released by Billy Joe Royal in 1967. The song was also a pop hit internationally, topping the charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Norway. Andersons version of Rose Garden remains one of the most successful country crossover recordings of all-time, the Lynn Anderson single was her third release for Columbia Records in 1970, after several years of recording for Chart Records. The single proved to be the first crossover record of her career, Rose Garden was originally an album cut by the songs writer, Joe South, in 1969. Several other male vocalists recorded it on albums including Freddy Weller, Billy Joe Royal and Dobie Gray and Third Avenue Blues Band, but it was never a hit until Andersons version. A recording by the girl group The Three Degrees, best known for their 1974 hit When Will I See You Again, also pre-dated Lynn Andersons hit version. Anderson wanted to record the song but her producer Glenn Sutton felt it was a mans song, according to Anderson, Sutton agreed to record the song as a potential album cut when there was time left during one of her scheduled recording sessions. After arranging a more up-tempo, light-hearted melody, Sutton and the studio musicians, Columbia Records executive Clive Davis was equally impressed and insisted the song be released as a single in both the country and pop markets. Shortly after its breakthrough on American Top 40 radio, the became an international hit. A cover version released by Sandie Shaw in UK failed to chart, the song became Andersons signature tune and one of the biggest hits of the 1970s, in any genre of music. Anderson won a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1971, Anderson said, I believe that Rose Garden was released at just the right time. People were trying to recover from the Vietnam years, the message in the song—that if you just take hold of life and go ahead, you can make something out of nothing—people just took to that. This album earned Anderson her first Grammy nomination in over 30 years, the songs chorus, from Andersons original version, was sampled by the pop/dance group Kon Kan in their similarly titled song I Beg Your Pardon, released in 1988. This track proved to be one of the biggest dance hits of the late 1980s. Canadian country pop group k. d. lang and the Reclines covered the song for their 1987 album Angel with a Lariat, the single was Langs first release in the United States but failed to chart. In 2005, Martina McBride included the song on her album of covers and this album featured classic country songs from over the years, including Rose Garden. The song was released as a single, peaking at 18 on the singles charts. Canadian synthpop band Kon Kan sampled parts of the song and its lyrics in their 1989 single I Beg Your Pardon, the song peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100, #3 in the Netherlands, #8 in Germany and #5 in the UK Singles Chart

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Dotdash
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About. com is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its topic sites, of which there are nearly 1,000. It is operated by About, Inc, the website competes with other online resource sites and encyclopedias. By March 2014,61,428,000 unique visitors were registered by comScore for About. com, making it the 16th-most-visited online property during that month. As of August 2012, About. com is the property of IAC, owner of Ask. com and numerous other online brands, and its revenue is generated by advertising. Founded in 1996 as The Mining Company, the site was launched on April 21,1997 by Scott Kurnit, owner of General Internet, Bill Day, and a group of other entrepreneurs in New York City. The original goal was to maintain 1,800 topic areas, but after five years of operation, the company changed its name to About Inc. and the website address from miningco. com to about. com in May 1999. The company was acquired by Primedia, Inc. in 2000 through a deal valued at US$690 million, whereby Primedia swapped 45.2 million shares for About, at the time of the acquisition announcement, About Inc. Following the purchase, which was finalized in the first quarter of 2001, in February 2005, The New York Times Company announced it was buying About. com, a purchase that was completed in the first half of the year for US$410 million. Google and Yahoo were reportedly among the other bidders, following the Times Co. acquisition, Peter C. Horan was appointed as About Inc. s president and CEO, in March 2007, About. coms patronage was measured at 33.5 million unique visitors. On May 7,2007, About Inc. acquired ConsumerSearch. com, initially conceived of in January 2007, About. coms first fully owned foreign venture, the China-based Abang. com, debuted in December 2007. At the time of the launch, the company had a Japan-based online entity, Allabout. co. jp, the About Group generated US$102.7 million in 2007, which represented a 135-percent increase from the time of the Times Co. acquisition. Meyer stepped down from the executive role in March 2008 and was replaced by Cella Irvine. Martin Nisenholtz, SVP of digital operations, temporarily replaced Irvine following her departure in May 2011, in July 2011, Darline Jean was named CEO of the About Group, after the companys second-quarter revenues totaled US$27.8 million. Jean previously served as Abouts chief financial officer and her new appointment became effective on September 1,2011, a media report published in August 2012 indicated that Answers. com had reached a preliminary agreement to acquire About. com for US$270 million. However, on August 26, Barry Dillers IAC announced that it would acquire About. com instead for US$300 million in cash. A source for the TechCrunch publication later confirmed that Answers. coms offer was valued at US$270 million. In the corresponding press release, IAC explained that the acquisition will help bolster and accompany its existing properties, Jean fulfilled her role as chief executive during the transition period, while ownership was transferred to IAC, and then left About shortly after the sale was finalized

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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website

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Nash Country Weekly
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Nash Country Weekly was an American lifestyle weekly magazine about country artists and their music. It was in circulation between April 1994 and May 2016, the magazine was established in 1994. It focused on country music stars and events, and regularly featured exclusive interviews with recording artists, Country Weekly also cosponsored the CMT/TNN Country Weekly Music Awards, at the time the only nationally televised country music awards show that allowed fans to vote for the winners. In February 2009, Country Weekly reverted to a weekly magazine, the magazine also dropped subscriptions at that point, and changed its logo. The magazine was renamed Nash Country Weekly in June 2015, as a means of co-branding with Nash FM, Nash Country Weekly closed its print publication in April 2016

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Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics

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People (magazine)
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People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine, People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and it was named Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Ages annual A-list and #3 on Adweeks Brand Blazers list in October 2006, the magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. Peoples website, People. com, focuses on celebrity news, in February 2015, the website broke a new record,72 million unique visitors. People is perhaps best known for its special issues naming the Worlds Most Beautiful, Best & Worst Dressed. The magazines headquarters are in New York and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles, for economic reasons it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago in 2006. In December 2016, LaTavia Roberson engaged in a feud with People after alleging they misquoted and misrepresented her interview online. The concept for People has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc. s chief executive officer at the time, the founding managing editor of People was Richard B. Stolley, an assistant managing editor at Life and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time Inc. in 1963. Peoples first publisher was Richard J. Durrell, another Time Inc. veteran, Stolley characterized the magazine as getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues, stolleys almost religious determination to keep the magazine people-focused contributed significantly to its rapid early success. It is said that although Time Inc. pumped an estimated $40 million into the venture, initially, the magazine was sold primarily on newsstands and in supermarkets. To get the magazine out each week, founding staff members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4,1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby and that issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U. S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action, the magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents, the core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from Life magazine, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier. This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo, Sam Angeloff and Robert Emmett Ginna, writers James Watters and Ronald B

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Stylus Magazine
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Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog. Additionally, Stylus had daily features like The Singles Jukebox, which looked at pop singles from around the globe, and Soulseeking, while the sites readership numbers never reached the levels of Pitchfork Medias, it did receive many notices in the press for the quality of its writing. In 2006 it was chosen by the Observer Music Monthly as one of the Internets 25 most essential music websites, Stylus closed as a business on 31 October 2007. As of February 2013, the site online, but is not publishing any new content. The Singles Jukebox relaunched with many of the writers as a stand-alone website in March 2009. Stylus Magazine – official site The Singles Jukebox – official site What Was It Anyway – official site The Stylus Decade – official site

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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Eddy Arnold
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Richard Edward Eddy Arnold was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s and he sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Arnold was born on May 15,1918, on a farm near Henderson, Tennessee. His father, a sharecropper, played the fiddle, while his mother played guitar, Arnolds father died when he was just 11, forcing him to leave school and begin helping on the family farm. This led to him later gaining his nickname—the Tennessee Plowboy, one of his brothers, PFC John Hendrix Arnold, fought in World War II and died in the Normandy landings. Arnold attended Pinson High School in Pinson, Tennessee, where he played guitar for school functions and he quit before graduation to help with the farm work, but continued performing, often arriving on a mule with his guitar hung on his back. Arnold also worked part-time as an assistant at a mortuary, in 1934, at age 16, Arnold debuted musically on WTJS-AM in Jackson, Tennessee, and obtained a job there during 1937. He performed at nightclubs and was a permanent performer for the station. During 1938, he was hired by WMPS-AM in Memphis, Tennessee and he soon quit for KWK-AM in St. Louis, Missouri, followed by a brief stint at WHAS-AM in Louisville, Kentucky. He performed for WSM on the Grand Ole Opry during 1943 as a solo artist, in 1944, Arnold signed a contract with RCA Victor, with manager Colonel Tom Parker, who later managed Elvis Presley. Arnolds first single was noticed, but the next, Each Minute Seems a Million Years. Its success began a decade of unprecedented chart performance, Arnolds next 57 singles all ranked in the top 10, in 1946, Arnold scored his first major success with Thats How Much I Love You. In 1948, he had five songs on the charts simultaneously. That year, he had nine songs in the top 10, five of these were number one, with Parkers management, Arnold continued to dominate, with 13 of the 20 best-scoring country music songs of 1947–1948. He became the host of Mutual Radios Purina-sponsored segment of the Opry and of Mutuals Checkerboard Jamboree, recorded radio programs increased Arnolds popularity, as did the CBS Radio series Hometown Reunion with the Duke of Paducah. Arnold quit the Opry during 1948, and his Hometown Reunion briefly broadcast in competition with the Opry on Saturday nights, in 1949 and 1950, he performed in the Columbia movies Feudin’ Rhythm and Hoedown. Arnold began working for television in the early 1950s, hosting The Eddy Arnold Show, the summer program was broadcast successively by all three television networks, replacing the Perry Como and Dinah Shore programs. He also performed as a guest and a guest host on the ABC-TV show Ozark Jubilee from 1955–60, Arnold featured in the syndicated Eddy Arnold Time from 1955 to 1957

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Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and one of the music artists of all time. Although primarily remembered as an music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll and he traditionally began his concerts with the simple Hello, Im Johnny Cash, followed by his signature Folsom Prison Blues. Much of Cashs music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation and redemption and his signature songs include I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, Get Rhythm, and Man in Black. During the last stage of his career, Cash covered songs by several late 20th-century rock artists, notably Hurt by Nine Inch Nails, Cash was born on February 26,1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, one of seven children born to Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree. He was mostly of Scottish and English ancestry, and as an adult traced his surname to 11th-century Fife, Scotland, after meeting with the then-laird of Falkland, Fife, Cash Loch and other locations in Fife bear the name of his family. At birth, Cash was named J. R. Cash, when Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force, he was not permitted to use initials as a first name, so he changed his name to John R. Cash. In 1955, when signing with Sun Records, he took Johnny Cash as his stage name, the Cash children were, Roy, Margaret Louise, Jack, J. R. Reba, Joanne, and Tommy. Tommy Cash also became a country artist. In March 1935, when Cash was three years old, the family settled in Dyess, Arkansas and he started working in cotton fields at age five, singing along with his family while working. The family farm was flooded on at least two occasions, which inspired him to write the song Five Feet High and Rising. His familys economic and personal struggles during the Great Depression inspired many of his songs, Cash was very close to his older brother, Jack. In May 1944, Jack was pulled into a head saw in the mill where he worked and was almost cut in two. He suffered for over a week before he died on May 20,1944, Cash often spoke of the horrible guilt he felt over this incident. Jack insisted on working, as the family needed the money, on his deathbed, Jack said he had visions of Heaven and angels. Decades later, Cash spoke of looking forward to meeting his brother in Heaven, Cashs early memories were dominated by gospel music and radio. Taught guitar by his mother and a friend, Cash began playing and writing songs at the age of twelve

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Don Gibson
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Donald Eugene Don Gibson was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson wrote such country standards as Sweet Dreams and I Cant Stop Loving You, Don Gibson was born in Shelby, North Carolina, into a poor working-class family, and he dropped out of school in the second grade. His first band was called Sons of the Soil, with whom he made his first recording in 1948, in 1957, he journeyed to Nashville to work with producer Chet Atkins and record Oh Lonesome Me and I Cant Stop Loving You for RCA Victor. The afternoon session resulted in a hit on both the country and pop charts. Oh Lonesome Me set the pattern for a series of other RCA hits. Blue Blue Day, recorded prior to Oh, Lonesome Me was a number 1 hit in 1958, later singles included Look Whos Blue, Dont Tell Me Your Troubles, Sea of Heartbreak, Lonesome No. 1, I Can Mend Your Broken Heart, and Woman, west and Gibson released an album together in 1969, titled Dottie and Don. He also recorded duets with Sue Thompson among these being the Top 40 hits, I Think They Call It Love, Good Old Fashioned Country Love and Oh. A talented songwriter, Gibson was nicknamed The Sad Poet because he wrote songs that told of loneliness. His song I Cant Stop Loving You, has been recorded by over 700 artists and he also wrote and recorded Sweet Dreams, a song that would become a major 1963 crossover hit for Patsy Cline. Roy Orbison was a fan of Gibsons songwriting, and in 1967. Gibsons wide appeal was also shown in Neil Youngs recorded version of Oh Lonesome Me on his 1970 album After the Gold Rush, Gibson was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1973. In 2001 he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, following his death from natural causes on November 17,2003, he was buried in the Sunset Cemetery in his hometown of Shelby, North Carolina. Located in Cleveland County, North Carolina, the Don Gibson Theater opened on November 2009 in historic uptown Shelby, the theater showcases a busy schedule of premier musical performances. Past performers have included Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Tom Paxton, Ralph Stanley, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, John Oates, for more information, http, //dgshelby. com/ Wolfe, Stacey. In The Encyclopedia of Country Music

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Loretta Lynn
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Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums over a career of almost 60 years. She is the most awarded female recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade. Lynn is the second of eight born to Clara Marie Clary and Melvin Theodore Ted Webb. In January 1948, 15-year-old Loretta married Oliver Doolittle Lynn and their life together inspired the music she wrote. In 1953 Doolittle bought her a $17 Harmony guitar and she often appeared at Bills Tavern in Blaine, Washington, and the Delta Grange Hall in Custer, Washington, with the Pen Brothers band and the Westerneers. She cut her first record, Im a Honky Tonk Girl and she became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s. In 1967 she had the first of 16 number-one hits and her later hits include Dont Come Home A Drinkin, You Aint Woman Enough, Fist City, and Coal Miners Daughter. Lynn focused on womens issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses. Country music radio stations refused to play her music, banning nine of her songs. She and contemporaries like Tammy Wynette provided a template for artists in country music to follow. Her best-selling 1976 autobiography, Coal Miners Daughter, was made into an Academy Award–winning film of the title in 1980, starring Sissy Spacek. Her album Van Lear Rose, released in 2004, was produced by the rock musician Jack White, Lynn and White were nominated for five Grammys. Lynn has received awards in country and American music. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013, Lynn has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since joining on September 25,1962, her first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry was on October 15,1960. Lynn has recorded 70 albums, including 54 studio albums,15 compilation albums, and one tribute album, Lynn was born and raised in Butcher Hollow, Van Lear, Kentucky, a mining community near Paintsville. Her mother was of Scots-Irish and Cherokee ancestry, Loretta was the second of eight children. She was named after the film star Loretta Young, Ted Webb never got to see his daughter become famous, as he died in 1959 of coalworkers pneumoconiosis before Lorettas first single, Im A Honky Tonk Girl, was released. Besides her famous siblings and children who perform, she is related to the country singer Patty Loveless on her mothers side and she is also related, on her mothers side, to Venus Ramey, Miss America of 1944

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Buck Owens
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Alvis Edgar Buck Owens, Jr. was an American musician, singer, songwriter and band leader who had 21 No.1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band the Buckaroos. While Owens originally used fiddle and retained pedal steel guitar into the 1970s, his sound on records and onstage was always more stripped-down, beginning in 1969, Owens co-hosted the TV series Hee Haw with Roy Clark. He left the cast in 1986, the accidental death of Rich, his best friend, in 1974 devastated him for years and abruptly halted his career until he performed with Dwight Yoakam in 1988. Owens died on March 25,2006 shortly after performing at his Crystal Palace restaurant, club, Owens is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Owens was born on a farm in Sherman, Texas, to Alvis Edgar Owens, Sr. and his wife, Buck was a donkey on the Owens farm, Rich Kienzle wrote in the biography About Buck. When Alvis Jr. was three or four years old, he walked into the house and announced that his name also was Buck and that was fine with the family, and the boys name was Buck from then on. He attended public school for grades 1–3 in Garland, Texas and his family moved to Mesa, Arizona, in 1937 during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Owens co-hosted a radio show called Buck and Britt in 1945, in the late 1940s he became a truck driver and drove through the San Joaquin Valley of California. He was impressed by Bakersfield, where he and his wife settled in 1951. Owens recorded a record called Hot Dog for the Pep label. Sometime in the 1950s, he lived with his wife and children in Fife, Washington. In 1958, Owens met Don Rich in Steves Gay 90s restaurant in South Tacoma, Owens had observed one of Richs shows, and immediately went to speak with him. Rich started to play fiddle with Owens at local venues and they were featured on the weekly BAR-K Jamboree on KTNT-TV11. Owens career took off in 1959, when his song Second Fiddle hit No.24 on the Billboard country chart, soon after, Under Your Spell Again made it to No.4 on the charts and Capitol Records wanted Owens to return to Bakersfield, California. Owens tried to convince Rich to go with him to Bakersfield, above and Beyond hit No.3. On April 2,1960 he performed the song on ABC-TVs Ozark Jubilee, in the early 1960s, the countrypolitan sound was popular, with smooth, string-laden, pop-influenced styles used by Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, and Patsy Cline, among others. Owens went against the trend, using honky tonk hillbilly feel, Owens was named the Most Promising Country and Western Singer of 1960 by Billboard. In 1961, his top 10-charting duets with Rose Maddox earned them awards as vocal team of the year and it was released on March 11 and entered the charts of April 13

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Ray Price (musician)
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Noble Ray Price was an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His wide ranging baritone has often praised as among the best male voices of country music. Some of his recordings include Release Me, Crazy Arms, Heartaches by the Number, For the Good Times, Night Life. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996, Price continued to record and tour well into his mid-eighties. Ray Price was born on a farm near the small, now gone, community of Peach, near Perryville in Wood County, Texas He was the son of Walter Clifton Price and his grandfather James M. M. Price was an early settler of the area. Price was three years old when his parents divorced and his moved to Dallas, Texas. For the rest of his childhood he split time between Dallas and on the farm, where his father had remained. Prices mother and step-father were successful fashion designers and wanted him to take up that line of work, Ray Price began singing and playing guitar as a teenager but at first chose a career in veterinary medicine. He was attending North Texas Agricultural College in preparation for that career when his studies were interrupted by Americas entry into World War II, Price was drafted in 1944 and served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater. He returned to the college after the war, and many years later was honored as a distinguished alumnus, after the war and college, Price rethought his decision to continue schooling to be a veterinarian. For one thing he was considered too small to work with cattle and horses. While helping around his fathers ranch he began singing at various functions around the Abilene. This eventually led him to singing on the radio program Hillbilly Circus broadcast on Abilenes KRBC in 1948. It was around this time Ray Price became friends with Lefty Frizzell, the two first met at Beck Recording Studio in Dallas, and Price ended up writing the song Give Me More, More, More Of Your Kisses for Frizzells use. A few demos recorded by Price at Becks caught the attention of Bullet Records in Nashville, Tennessee, however, his first single released on Bullet, Jealous Lies failed to become a chart hit. He relocated to Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a time with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Price managed his band, the Drifting Cowboys and he was the first artist to have a success with the song Release Me, a top five popular music hit for Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967. In 1953, Price formed his band, the Cherokee Cowboys, miller wrote one of Ray Prices classics in 1958, Invitation to the Blues, and sang harmony on the recording

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Hank Snow
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Clarence Eugene Hank Snow was a celebrated Canadian country music artist. In a career spanned more than 50 years, he recorded 140 albums. His number-one hits include the self-penned songs Im Moving On, The Golden Rocket and famous versions of I Dont Hurt Anymore, Let Me Go, Ive Been Everywhere, Hello Love, as well as other top 10 hits. Snow was a songwriter whose clear, baritone voice expressed a wide range of emotions including the joys of freedom. Through it all, his musically talented mother provided the support he needed to pursue his dream of becoming a famous entertainer like his idol. As a performer of traditional music, Snow won numerous awards and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. Hank Snow was born in the community of Brooklyn in Queens County, Nova Scotia. He was the fifth of six children, the two eldest died in infancy born to George Snow and Maude Marie Hatt and his parents were married on November 10,1909 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. After the death of his father Hanks mother married Charles Tanner in 1930, in his autobiography, Snow tells how his parents struggled to feed their four remaining children during hard financial times. George Snow worked for low pay as a foreman in sawmills, often far from home, while Marie helped support the family by washing clothes and she also enjoyed playing her own pump organ, but refused several offers to join travelling shows because of her dedication to the family. One sister moved in with an aunt, while the two were sent to separate foster homes. Snow himself went to live with his grandmother who ordered him never to mention his mothers name. Snows childhood misfortunes continued, however, after his mothers remarriage to a local fisherman and he endured his stepfathers jealous tantrums, beatings and verbal abuse. Why in the hell dont you get out and find a job somewhere and his stepfather would rage even though Jack, as he was then known, was a frail 12-year-old who weighed only 80 pounds. It was at time that his mother ordered a Hawaiian steel guitar advertised in a magazine along with free lessons. At first, she ordered him not to touch the guitar because it was one of her prized possessions, but later, when she finally allowed him to play, she marvelled at the various sounds that I could get from the instrument. Snow adds that after he had mastered some chords and a few songs, his mother would ask him to sing, when he performed for the neighbours, word got around and I was being invited out somewhere just about every night. So it was through mothers mail-order guitar that I became interested in music, in 1926, as the tension continued at home, Snow decided to escape by joining a fishing schooner where he served as a flunky or cabin boy

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Hank Williams
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Hiram King Hank Williams, was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Born in Mount Olive, Butler County, Alabama, Williams moved to Georgiana, where he met Rufus Payne, Payne had a major influence on Williams later musical style, along with Roy Acuff and Ernest Tubb. During this time, Williams informally changed his name to Hank and he moved to Montgomery, where he began his music career in 1937, when producers at radio station WSFA hired him to perform and host a 15-minute program. He formed as backup the Drifting Cowboys band, which was managed by his mother, Williams eventually married Audrey Sheppard, who was his manager for nearly a decade. After recording Never Again and Honky Tonkin with Sterling Records, he signed a contract with MGM Records, in 1947 he released Move It on Over, which became a hit, and also joined the Louisiana Hayride radio program. One year later, he released a cover of Lovesick Blues, after an initial rejection, Williams joined the Grand Ole Opry. He was unable to read or notate music to any significant degree, among the hits he wrote were Your Cheatin Heart, Hey, Good Lookin, and Im So Lonesome I Could Cry. Several years of pain, alcoholism, and prescription drug abuse severely damaged Williams health. He divorced Sheppard and was dismissed by the Grand Ole Opry because of his unreliability, Williams died on New Years Day of 1953 at the age of 29, from heart failure exacerbated by pills and alcohol. Despite his short life, Williams had a influence on 20th-century popular music. The songs he wrote and recorded have been covered by artists and have been hits in various genres. He has been inducted into multiple halls of fame, such as the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Williams was born in Butler County, Alabama, the son of Jessie Lillybelle Lillie and his parents married on November 12,1916. Hank Williams was of English ancestry, Elonzo Williams worked as an engineer for the railroads of the W. T. Smith lumber company. He was drafted during World War I, serving from July 1918 until June 1919 and he was severely injured after falling from a truck, breaking his collarbone and suffering a severe blow to the head. After his return, the familys first child, Irene, was born on August 8,1922, another son of theirs died shortly after birth. Their third child, Hiram, was born on September 17,1923, in Mount Olive. Since Elonzo Williams was a Mason, and his wife was a member of Order of the Eastern Star the child was named after Hiram I of Tyre, as a child, he was nicknamed Harm by his family and Herky or Poots by his friends

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Tammy Wynette
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Tammy Wynette was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country musics best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers. Wynette was called the First Lady of Country Music, and her best-known song, many of her hits dealt with classic themes of loneliness, divorce, and the difficulties of life and relationships. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wynette charted 20 No.1 songs, along with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, she is credited with having defined the role of women in country music during the 1970s. Wynettes marriage to country music singer George Jones in 1969, which ended in divorce in 1975, created a music couple, following the earlier success of Johnny Cash. Jones and Wynette recorded a sequence of albums and singles that hit the charts throughout the 1970s, Tammy Wynette was born Virginia Wynette Pugh near Tremont, Mississippi, the only child of Mildred Faye and William Hollice Pugh. Wynettes father was a farmer and local musician who died of a brain tumor when Wynette was nine months old and her mother worked in an office, as a substitute school teacher, as well as on the family farm. In 1946, Mildred Pugh married Foy Lee, a farmer, Wynette grew up in her maternal grandparents home, which had no indoor toilets or running water. She was raised with an aunt, Carolyn Russell, who was five years older. As a girl, Wynette taught herself to play a variety of instruments that had been left by her deceased father. Wynette attended Tremont High School, where she was a basketball player. A month before graduation, several months before her 18th birthday, she wed her first husband and he was a construction worker, but had trouble keeping a job, and they moved from place to place several times. Wynette worked as a waitress, a receptionist, and a barmaid, in 1963, she attended Beauty College in Tupelo, Mississippi, where she learned to be a hairdresser. She continued to renew her cosmetology license every year for the rest of her life – just in case she ever had to go back to a daily job and she left Euple, her first husband, before the birth of their third daughter. That baby developed spinal meningitis, and Wynette tried to earn money by performing at night. Euple did not support her ambition to become a country singer, years later he appeared at one of her concerts as she was signing autographs and asked for one. She signed it Dream on, baby, in 1965, Wynette sang on the Country Boy Eddie Show on WBRC-TV in Birmingham, while working as a hairdresser in Midfield, AL, and this led to performances with Porter Wagoner. In 1966, she moved with her three daughters from Birmingham to Nashville, Tennessee, where she attempted to get a recording contract, after being turned down repeatedly by all of the other record companies, she auditioned for the producer Billy Sherrill. Sherrill was originally reluctant to sign her up, but decided to do so after finding himself in need of a singer for Apartment No.9, when Sherrill heard Wynette sing it, he was impressed and decided to sign her up to Epic Records in 1966

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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart

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Dan Tyminski
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Daniel John Dan Tyminski is an American bluegrass composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a member of the band Alison Krauss and Union Station and has released two albums, Carry Me Across the Mountain, on the Doobie Shea Records label. In total, he has won 14 Grammy awards for solo, more recently, he was the vocalist on Aviciis international hit Hey Brother from the album True. While Alison Krauss and Union Station were on hiatus, owing to Alison Krauss tour with Robert Plant, Tyminski formed his own group, the Dan Tyminski Band. The ensemble featured Tyminski on guitar, Ron Stewart on banjo, Adam Steffey on mandolin, Justin Moses on fiddle and dobro, an album, entitled Wheels, was released on Rounder Records in June 2008. Tyminski played Martin and Bourgeois guitars and Sim Daley played mandolins, in July 2009 the Martin Guitar Company issued, as part of their Custom Artist Series, a D28 Dreadnought acoustic guitar in recognition of Dans life devoted to performing bluegrass and old-time music. The guitar, named Martin D-28 Dan Tyminski Custom Edition, was issued with its own details to appeal to flatpickers. For many years Dans primary guitar has been a well worn 1946 Martin D-28, at the Ultra Music Festival 2013, he premiered a new single, Hey Brother, as part of a country-electronic collaboration with Swedish producer Avicii. – Ulysses Everett McGill A ^ Hey Brother officially credited only to Avicii, the Dan Tyminski Band Dan Tyminski Interview with CountryMusicPride. com CountryMusicPride. com

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Rhonda Vincent
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Rhonda Lea Vincent is an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. In 2000, The Wall Street Journal proclaimed Vincent the new Queen of Bluegrass, Vincents musical career began when she was a child in her familys band The Sally Mountain Show, and has spanned more than four decades. Vincent is an in-demand guest vocalist for other Bluegrass and Country music performers, appearing on recordings by Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson, Tanya Tucker, Joe Diffie, Vincent was born in Kirksville, Missouri, on July 13,1962 and raised in nearby Greentop, Missouri. She is the oldest of three children, and the daughter of Johnny and Carolyn Vincent. Her brother Darrin is a member of the Grammy award winning bluegrass group Dailey & Vincent and her youngest brother Brian played with the family group for many years but no longer works as a professional musician. A fifth-generation musician, Rhondas musical career started when at age five, she sang songs with her familys band. Her father bought her a drum for her sixth birthday. At age eight, Vincent started playing mandolin and she soon excelled and began guitar lessons at ten years old. She later added fiddle to her list of instruments, in an interview with Ingrams magazine she said, Dad used to pick me up after school, and Grandpa would come over and we played until after dinner almost every night. There wasn’t a lot going on in Greentop, but it was always hopping at the Vincent house, Vincent recorded her first single, a version of Mule Skinner Blues in 1970. The family, including the brothers when they were old enough to play instruments, traveled and performed extensively across the Midwest in the 1970s. Except for living in Texas for a time in 1974. The Vincent children all attended Schuyler County R-1 schools, and following high school Vincent later attended Northeast Missouri State University, even while Vincent was still performing regularly with The Sally Mountain Show, she released her first solo album New Dreams and Sunshine in 1988. In 1985, Vincent had competed in the TV series You Can Be A Star on the version of The Nashville Network. After winning the competition, she was signed to a contract, her first professional performance was with country singer. In the 1990s Vincent branched out into country music, releasing a pair of albums on the Giant Records label. With the release of her album Back Home Again in 2000, the International Bluegrass Music Association accorded her its Female Vocalist of the Year award for the years 2000 -2006, plus IBMA Entertainer of the Year in 2001. The Society for Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America designated her its Entertainer of the Year for 2002 -2006 inclusive and she also performs with her band, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage

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I Can't Stop Loving You
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I Cant Stop Loving You is a popular song written and composed by country singer, songwriter and musician Don Gibson, who first recorded it on December 30,1957, for RCA Victor Records. It was released in 1958 as the B-side of Oh, Lonesome Me, the song was covered by Ray Charles in 1962, featured on Charles Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, and released as a single. Charles version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962 and this version went to number one on the U. S. R&B and Adult Contemporary charts. Billboard ranked it as the No.2 song for 1962, Charles reached No.1 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1962, staying for two weeks. The Ray Charles version is noted for his saying the words before the last five lines of the song on the chorus, Sing the Song. Choral backing was provided by The Randy Van Horne Singers and it was ranked No.164 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and No.49 on CMTs 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. Note, This original recording was released as I Cant Stop Lovin You, the song has been recorded by many other artists. Some recordings are titled as I Cant Stop Lovin You,1958, Kitty Wells on her album Kitty Wells Golden Favorites, No. 1974, Donna Hightower recorded in Spain it on her Columbia album Im In Love with Love 1974, Dolly Parton, the song was also released as a single in the U. S. and charted #62 R&B

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String section
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The string section is the largest body of a single instrument category in the standard Classical orchestra. It normally consists of the first violins, the violins, the violas, the cellos. The first and second play the same types of instruments. The first violins are generally given the melody or higher-pitch musical lines, the second violins may play a harmony part, a countermelody or an accompaniment passage. In discussions of the instrumentation of a work, the phrase the strings or. An orchestra consisting solely of a section is called a string orchestra. Smaller string sections are used in jazz, pop and rock music arrangements, the most common seating arrangement in the 2000s is with first violins, second violins, violas and cello sections arrayed clockwise around the conductor, with basses behind the cellos on the right. The principal string players sit at the front of their section, closest to the conductor and on the row of performers which is closest to the audience. If space or numbers are limited, cellos and basses can be put in the middle, violins and violas on the left and winds to the right, this is the usual arrangement in orchestra pits. The seating may also be specified by the composer, as in Béla Bartóks Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, in some cases, due to space constraints or other issues, a different layout may be used. The inside player typically turns the pages of the part, while the player continues playing. In cases where a turn occurs during an essential musical part. There are more variations of set-up with the bass section, depending on the size of the section. There are not usually as many basses as cellos, so they are either in one row, or for a larger section, in some orchestras, some or all of the string sections may be placed on wooden risers, which are platforms that elevate the performers. The size of a section may be expressed with a formula of the type 10-10-8-10-6, designating the number of first violins, second violins, violas, cellos. The numbers can vary widely, Wagner in Die Walküre specifies 16-16-12-12-8, in general, music from the Baroque music era and the Classical music period used smaller string sections. During the contemporary era, some composers requested smaller string sections. In some regional orchestras, amateur orchestras and youth orchestras, the sections may be relatively small

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David Campbell (composer)
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David Richard Campbell is an arranger, composer and conductor. Campbell was born in Toronto, Ontario and his father, D. Warren Campbell, was from Winnipeg, Manitoba, but was attending seminary in Toronto in order to become a Presbyterian minister. Campbell subsequently was assigned to a church in Pittsburgh, taking his family with him, Campbell took up the violin at age 9. At age 12, he began venturing into orchestration, studying the works of Bartók, Schoenberg, in the late 1960s, after studying at Manhattan School of Music, Campbell moved from New York to Los Angeles and began studying pop music. He studied the music of The Beatles, Leonard Cohen and The Rolling Stones, at age 23, Campbell played on his first major album, Tapestry, by Carole King. This led to his first arranger role, for Kings Rhymes, Campbell also played viola on recording sessions such as Marvin Gayes Lets Get It On and Bill Withers Lean on Me. As a composer, David has written music for films including Joy, Paper Tigers. He has also arranged and orchestrated music for over 80 films including Annie, Foxcatcher, August, Osage County, Rock of Ages, Dreamgirls, North Country, in 2010 he worked with Nigel Godrich on the score for Scott Pilgrim vs. In recent years, he has conducted at the Hollywood Bowl for Faith Hill, Death Cab for Cutie, Ray LaMontagne, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson and he collaborated with Muse for the performance of Survival, the official song of the London Olympics. In February 2009 Campbell arranged Radioheads 15 Step for the collaboration with the USC Marching Band at the 2009 Grammy Awards. Reilly, Jack Black and Jarvis Cocker and he arranged and orchestrated for the Seattle Symphony and Pickwicks Sonic Evolution show on June 6,2014. In 2003, Campbell served as conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra during their performance with Kiss. During the concert, Campbell and the members of the orchestra wore the iconic Kiss makeup along with the members of the band and he created song arrangements, dance arrangements, underscoring and orchestrations for the Broadway musical Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark. Campbell has two sons and one daughter, musician Beck Hansen, artist Channing Hansen, and musician Alyssa Suede and he is married to theatrical composer Raven Kane. His father was a Presbyterian minister but Campbell himself has been a Scientologist for over 45 years, in 2012, he donated to Ron Pauls campaign in the United States Presidential election. Partial list of films that David Campbells work contributed to

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Joe South
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Joe South was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Best known for his songwriting, South won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for Games People Play and was nominated for the award in 1972 for Rose Garden. South started his pop career in July 1958 with the NRC Records novelty hit The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor, after this hit, Souths music grew increasingly serious. South had met and was encouraged by Bill Lowery, an Atlanta music publisher and he began his recording career in Atlanta with the National Recording Corporation, where he served as staff guitarist along with other NRC artists Ray Stevens and Jerry Reed. Souths earliest recordings have been re-released by NRC on CD and he soon returned to Nashville with The Manrando Group and then onto Charlie Wayne Felts Promotions. South was also a prominent sideman, playing guitar on Tommy Roes Sheila, Bob Dylans Blonde on Blonde album, South played electric guitar on Simon & Garfunkels second album, Sounds of Silence, although Al Gorgoni and/or Vinnie Bell feature on the title track. Billy Joe Royal recorded four South songs, Down in the Boondocks, I Knew You When, Yo-Yo, and Hush. Responding to late 1960s issues, Souths style changed radically, most evident in his biggest single, 1969s pungent, no-nonsense Games People Play, a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Accompanied by a lush string sound, an organ, and brass, the won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song. South followed up with Birds of a Feather and two other soul-searchers, the back-to-nature Dont It Make You Want to Go Home and the socially provocative Walk a Mile in My Shoes. Souths most commercially successful composition was Lynn Andersons 1971 country/pop monster hit, Rose Garden, Anderson won a Grammy Award for her vocals, and South earned two Grammy Nominations for it, as Best Country Song and Song of the Year. South wrote more hits for Anderson, such as How Can I Unlove You, riley, and Penny DeHaven also had hits on the Billboard country chart with South songs. James Taylor, and k. d. lang, although most covered versions of Souths best known songs, the 1971 suicide of Souths brother, Tommy, resulted in him becoming clinically depressed. South was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1979, in 1988, a Dutch DJ, Jan Donkers, interviewed South for VPRO-radio. The radio show aired the interview also played four new songs by South. On September 13,2003, South performed during the Georgia Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony and played with Buddy Buie, James B. Souths final recording, Oprah Cried, was made in 2009 and released as a track on the re-release of the albums So the Seeds are Growing. South died at his home in Buford, Georgia, northeast of Atlanta, on September 5,2012, official website Joe South at AllMusic Entry at Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Joe South and the Believers

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Lynn Anderson
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Lynn Rene Anderson was an American country music singer known for a string of hits throughout the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, most notably her 1970 worldwide hit Rose Garden. Andersons crossover appeal and regular exposure on national television helped her to one of the most popular. 1,18 Top 10, and more than 50 Top 40 hit singles and she was the #13 artist of the 1970s according to Joel Whitburns Billboard Hot Country Singles book and the highest ranking artist of the list not yet in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Anderson was the first female country artist to win the American Music Award, as well as the first to headline, Anderson debuted in 1966, at the age of 19, and had her first hit with Ride, Ride, Ride. After a series of Top 10 hit singles on the charts during the late 1960s. Under Columbia, she had her most successful string of hits and her signature song, Rose Garden, remains one of the biggest selling country crossover hits of all time. In addition to topping the U. S. country charts for five weeks and it also topped the charts in several countries around the globe, an unprecedented achievement at the time. CMT ranks Rose Garden at No.83 on its list of the 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music History, Anderson continued to record and remained a popular concert attraction until her death, regularly headlining major casino showrooms, performing arts centers and theaters. She was later raised in Fair Oaks, California and she was the daughter of country music songwriters Casey and Liz Anderson. Lynn Andersons great-grandfather was born in Aremark, Norway, in later life, Anderson met her Norwegian relatives through the Norwegian TV series Tore på sporet. Anderson became interested in singing at age six and she had her first success in the horse show arena in and around California, where she would eventually win a total of 700 trophies, including the California Horse Show Queen title in 1966. In her teens, she performed regularly on the television program Country Caravan. Her mother signed with RCA Victor as a music recording artist that year. While accompanying her mother to Nashville, Anderson participated in an informal sing-along in a room with country stars Merle Haggard. One of the present at the sing-along, Slim Williamson, owned Chart Records. Williamson recognized Lynn Andersons talent and invited her to record for his label and she began recording for Chart in 1966. In 1966, Lynn Anderson released her single, For Better or for Worse. Her first charting single and her release on the Chart Label, Ride, Ride, Ride

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Merle Haggard
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Merle Ronald Haggard was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Haggards childhood was troubled after the death of his father, between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release albums into the 2000s. He died on April 6,2016 — his 79th birthday — at his ranch in Northern California, Haggards last recording, a song called Kern River Blues, described his departure from Bakersfield in the late 1970s and his displeasure with politicians. The song was recorded February 9,2016, and features his son Ben on guitar and this record was released on May 12,2016, marking the end of Haggards music career. Haggards parents, Flossie Mae and James Francis Haggard, moved to California from their home in Checotah, Oklahoma, during the Great Depression, after their barn burned in 1934. They settled with their two children, Lowell and Lillian, in an apartment in Bakersfield, while James started working for the Santa Fe Railroad. A woman, who owned a boxcar placed in Oildale, a nearby town and he remodeled the boxcar, and soon after moved in, also purchasing the lot, where Merle Ronald Haggard was born on April 6,1937. The property was expanded by building a bathroom, a second bedroom, a kitchen. His father died of a hemorrhage in 1945, an event that deeply affected Haggard during his childhood. To support the family, his mother worked as a bookkeeper, at 12, his brother, Lowell, gave him his used guitar. Haggard learned to play alone, with the records he had at home, influenced by Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, as his mother was absent due to work, Haggard became progressively rebellious. His mother sent him for a weekend to a detention center to change his attitude. Haggard committed a number of offenses, such as thefts. He was sent to a detention center for shoplifting in 1950. When he was 14, Haggard ran away to Texas with his friend Bob Teague and he rode freight trains and hitchhiked throughout the state. When he returned the year, he and his friend were arrested for robbery. Haggard and Teague were released when the robbers were found

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Bonnie Owens
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Bonnie Owens, born Bonnie Campbell, was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later Merle Haggard. Bonnie Campbell was born in Blanchard, Oklahoma and she met Buck Owens when she was only 15. They played in a band in Mesa, Arizona, married in 1948 and they later divorced, but the move to Bakersfield jump-started both their music careers. Bonnie Owenss first recording was A Dear John Letter, a duet with Fuzzy Owen on Mar-Vel Records about 1950, side B contains the song “Wonderful World”. Owens recorded on numerous labels during the 1950s and early 1960s including Merle Haggard’s and Fuzzy Owens own Tally label and her first album titled Don’t Take Advantage Of Me came in 1965 on Capitol Records # ST-2403. Owens had hits on the charts in the early 1960s with the songs Why Dont Daddy Live Here Anymore. In 1965 Haggard and Owens recorded the song Just Between the Two of Us and it is also the title song to their 1966 duet album on Capitol Records. Bonnie Owens was named “Female Vocalist Of The Year” in 1965 by the Academy of Country Music and she and Haggard married that same year. From that point on, Bonnie dedicated her time to Haggard’s children and his career, during the early stages of their careers, Bonnie was the headliner and Merle the up-and-comer. Owens and Haggard divorced in 1978, after a brief hiatus, in 2006, Owens died in a hospital, less than a month after her first husband Buck Owens died

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Once a Day
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Once a Day is a song written by Bill Anderson and recorded as the debut single by American country artist Connie Smith. It was produced by Bob Ferguson for her debut album. The song was released in August 1964, topping the Billboard country music chart for eight weeks between late 1964 and early 1965. This song peaked at one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart for the week of November 28,1964. Once a Day was written by American country artist, Bill Anderson, originally recorded by Smith as a demo, the song was officially recorded at her first session with RCA Victor Records on July 16,1964 at Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. Produced by Bob Ferguson, the session was accompanied by Nashvilles A-Team of musicians, the song itself describes a woman who has not gotten over her previous lover. Although the woman explains that she has limited her grieving to once a day, it is found out that she is grieving, once a day, every day. The song was re-recorded by Smith in French and was re-titled and that year the song was released as a single to France, and was released seven years later on Smiths compilation, Love Is the Look Youre Looking for in 1973. It was re-recorded for a time for her 1976 studio album. Since the songs release, Once a Day has been recorded by over 50 different artists, such artists as country artist, Loretta Lynn recorded a cover of the song for her 1965 album, Songs from My Heart. The same year, David Houston recorded Once a Day for his studio album, in 1966, R&B vocalist, Timi Yuro released her version as single, which peaked at #67 on the Billboard Pop Chart. Chicano artist, Trini Lopez recorded the song in 1968 for his country album, in November 1969, country artist, Lynn Anderson released an album of country cover versions entitled, Songs That Made Country Girls Famous, which included a version of Once a Day. Dean Martin recorded a Traditional Pop version of the song, which was released on his 1970 album, My Woman, My Woman, in 1986, Australian Rock band, The Triffids recorded Once a Day for their album, In the Pines. Punk Rock artist, Mike Ness recorded a version for his 1999 solo album, in 2005, Martina McBrides album of country classics, Timeless included a cover of the song. In 2006 Van Morrison included a cover on his Pay The Devil release, in 2015, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams, and J. D. Crowe released a version on their compilation album, Still Standing Tall and Tough. Once a Day was released as Connie Smiths debut single under RCA Victor Records and it was rush-released as a single August 1,1964, and moved quickly up the country music chart. This longevity record stood unmatched until December 2012, when We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift overtook the achievement with nine weeks at No.1. Despite this success, Smith never topped the Billboard country charts again, and she did, however, top the country charts twice more in Canada, with her cover of Gordon Lightfoots Ribbon of Darkness and The Everly Brothers I Kissed You

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Bill Anderson (singer)
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James William Anderson III, known as Bill Anderson, is an American country music singer, songwriter and television personality. He has been a member in long standing of the weekly Grand Ole Opry radio program and stage performance in Nashville, twenty-nine more of his singles have reached the top ten. One of the most successful songwriters in music history, Anderson is also a popular singer, earning the nickname Whisperin Bill for his soft vocal style. Bill Anderson had his own show in the 1960s. Anderson has made television appearances, including two stints as a game show host, The Better Sex in 1977, and the country music-themed quiz show Fandango on The Nashville Network. Although Bill was born in Columbia, South Carolina, he was raised in Griffin, Georgia and Decatur, Georgia. He studied journalism at the University of Georgia with an eye toward sports writing, and worked his way through school as a radio DJ at WGAU, when he first tried songwriting and singing. He earned a degree in journalism from the universitys Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and he also became a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Anderson took full advantage of his big break, moving to Nashville, Tennessee, before signing to Decca, Anderson recorded for the small TNT label between 1957 and 1959, where he released three singles that failed to hit the country charts, including a version of City Lights. After signing with Decca in 1959, he left TNT and his first chart hit came with 1959s Thats What Its Like to Be Lonesome, and he had his first top ten entry with 1960s Tip of My Fingers. Early hits like Po Folks, Mama Sang a Song, and 8 X10 still remain among his best-known. Anderson recorded his biggest hit and signature song, the partly spoken ballad Still, in 1963, and it not only topped the country charts, the song climbed to No.8 on the pop chart, as well as No.3 on the adult contemporary chart. He also wrote the song Papas Table Grace which was covered by Bobby Hankins. On February 15,1965, Anderson appeared—along with two imposters—on the game show To Tell The Truth, challenging the panel to determine the real Bill Anderson. According to the read at the beginning of his segment. Only two of the four panelists successfully identified Bill, at the end of the segment, he sang one of his own compositions, Po Folks. Anderson reached the top five 19 times through 1978 and this included the No.1 songs ones I Get the Fever, For Loving You, My Life, World of Make Believe, and Sometimes, a duet with Mary Lou Turner. Anderson hit the top ten for the last time in 1978 with I Cant Wait Any Longer, besides his whisper of a singing voice, he was also known for his whispering recitations during songs, such as in Mama Sang a Song and Still

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Connie Smith
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Connie Smith is an American country music artist. Active since 1964, Smith is widely considered to be one of the genres best female vocalists and she has earned 11 Grammy award nominations,20 top ten Billboard country singles, and 31 charting albums, three of which have hit number one. On October 21,2012, Smith became the 12th solo female vocalist, Smith, has an estimated net worth of $18 million. Artists such as Parton, George Jones, and Chely Wright have cited Smith as either one of the best vocalists in the industry or their favorite female artist. Eddie Stubbs of Nashville radio station WSM and the Grand Ole Opry has dubbed Smith The Rolls-Royce of Country Singers, with this being said, Smith has stated on numerous occasions that country legend Loretta Lynn is her favourite country singer ever. Connie Smith was born Constance June Meador on August 14,1941 to Wilma and Hobart Meador in Elkhart and her parents were originally from West Virginia, and when Smith was five months old, the family returned there. They would later move to Dungannon, Ohio and her father was abusive when she was a child, which would eventually cause her to suffer a mental breakdown when she was a teenager. When she was seven, her mother divorced her father and married Tom Clark, Clark brought 8 children to the new marriage, Meador brought five, including Smith. The couple would eventually have two children together, which in total added up to fifteen children. As a child, Smith was surrounded by music and her stepfather played mandolin, while her brother played fiddle, and her other brother played guitar. On Saturday nights Smith would listen to the Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast, while she was a teenager, she was injured in a lawnmower accident, which nearly cut her leg off. While in the hospital recovering, she was given a guitar, following the recovery, she began to perform in various local talent contests. In 1959, Smith graduated from Salem-Liberty High School as the class salutatorian, in August 1963, she entered a talent contest at the Frontier Ranch country music park near Columbus, Ohio. Performing Jean Shepards I Thought of You, Smith won the talent contest and that day at the park, country artist Bill Anderson heard Smith perform and was impressed by her voice. In January 1964, Smith ran into Anderson again at a music package concert. After performing on the program, Smith returned to Nashville that May to record demos by Anderson that he planned on pitching to other country artists, Andersons manager Hubert Long brought the demo recording to RCA Victor Records, where producer Chet Atkins heard it. Also impressed by her vocals, Atkins offered Smith a recording contract, because Chet Atkins found himself too busy with other artists, Bob Ferguson acted as Smiths producer on her first sessions and would continue to work as her producer until her departure from RCA. Smiths first session took place on July 16,1964, where she recorded four songs, One of the four songs recorded during the session entitled Once a Day was chosen to be Smiths debut single